{"data":{"id":61483,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/61483","is_boosted":false,"title":"Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen \u6797\u9e93\u5e7d\u5c45\u5716","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAgAFAPMAAJOFc5iKdpmLd5qLd5uLd56Pe6aVf6eWf6qZgauagwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAAIf8LSW1hZ2VNYWdpY2sOZ2FtbWE9MC40NTQ1NDUALAAAAAACAAUAAAQHMB0gRKknRQA7","width":8700,"height":11600,"alt_text":"A work made of hanging scroll; ink and light colors on paper."},"main_reference_number":"1947.728","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1361,"date_end":1361,"date_display":"Yuan dynasty (1279\u20131368), dated 1361","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Wang Meng \u738b\u8499 (Chinese, c. 1308-1385)","place_of_origin":"China","description":"<p>This modest cottage nestled at the foot of towering mountains presents a quintessential image of academic retreat from the \u201cdusty\u201d world of material concerns and political instabilities. Its cultured occupant kneels on a platform and plays the zither (<em>qin<\/em>); a book lies open before him and young servants wait attentively nearby. The luxuriant setting of layered peaks and intertwined trees, as well as the dry, charcoal- like treatment of fibrous and dotted boulders, is imbued with a textural richness. This style is closely associated with Wang Meng, the last of the \u201cFour Great Masters\u201d of the Yuan dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Such a complex, kinetic composition reflects this artist's distinctive contribution to the literati's new use of painting as a vehicle for intellectual and emotional self-expression.  This concept was largely kindled by social and political upheavals that accompanied the 14th-century Mongol conquest of China and the establishment of the Yuan dynasty. Wang Meng, who had served the Mongol government as a legal scribe, retired to a mountain hermitage in the turbulent final decades of Yuan rule. He may have executed this painting as a metaphorical self-portrait.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"177.8 \u00d7 64.2 cm (70 \u00d7 25 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":64,"height":177,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Hanging scroll; ink and light colors on paper","inscriptions":"Inscriptions:\n1. in upper right-hand corner of painting: title in seal characters, followed by dated signature of artist in regular script: \u6797\u9e93\u5e7d\u5c45, \u81f3\u6b63\u8f9b\u4e11\u4e09\u6708\u5c0f\u65e5\u738b\u8499\u756b\n[Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen','Tenth day of the third month ofthe xinchou year of the Zhizheng era (1361), painted by Wang Meng].\n\nArtist's seal:\nTwo red seals following the artist's inscription in the upper-right corner of the painting. Upper seal: \u738b\u8499 \"Wang Meng\"; lower seal: \u53d4\u660e \"Shuming\" (style-name of Wang Meng).\n\nCollector's seals: in the lower right corner of the painting, C.C. Wang \u738b\u6c0f\u5b63\u9077\u73cd\u85cf\u4e4b\u5370 and Li Kefan \u6912\u5802\u674e\u53ef\u8543\u9451\u85cf, bottom left, unidentified\n\nColophons:\n1. on the mounting above the painting: by Wu Hufan (1894-1968), dated 1938: \u5143\u738b\u53d4\u660e\u6797\u9e93\u5e7d\u5c45\u5716\n\u52c1\u5065\u66a2\u767c\u5728\u4e39\u9752\uff0c\u6625\u66c9\u6797\u6cc9\u6e05\u96c6\u4e4b\u53f3, \u620a\u5bc5\u5433\u6e56\u5e06\u984c\nFollowed by studio seal of Wu Hufan: \u67d0\u666f\u66f8\u5c4b.","credit_line":"Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Charles E. Kelley, \u201cA Chinese Landscape of the Yuan Dynasty,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (April\/May 1948): 44\u201346.\n\nJack Sewell, Ming-Ch\u02bbing Dynasties, a.d. 1368\u20131644, a.d. 1644\u20131912 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), (13).\n\nDon Maust, Collectable Chinese Art and Antiques (Uniontown: E. G. Warman, 1973), 108.\n\n\u9234\u6728\u656c, \u300a\u4e2d\u570b\u7e6a\u756b\u7e3d\u5408\u5716\u9304\u300b1 (\u6771\u4eac: \u6771\u4eac\u5927\u5b78\u51fa\u7248\u6703, 1982),  I-30, pl. A 3-005.\n\nStephen Little, \u201cEarly Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Museum Studies 22, no. 1 (1996), fig. 18.\n\nStephen Little, \u201cChinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Arts of Asia (May\/June 1999): 49, fig. 4.\n\nJoe Parker, Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336\u20131573) (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 45, fig. 1.3.","exhibition_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Ch\u02bbing Dynasties, a.d. 1368\u20131644, a.d. 1644\u20131912, August 7\u2013October 11, 1964.","provenance_text":"Chi-Chuan Wang (1907\u20132003; also C.C. 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